Twins????

[PretzelPrincess]

I'm pregnant with DC 2, around 6/7 weeks. I've had severe morning sickness for the past 2 weeks and been in hospital due to dehydration. I didn't have any nausea or sickness with DC1.
Anyyyywayyyy the doctors mentioned that is possible I'm having twins because of the extreme symptoms and the early onset.
Has anyone had any experience of this? I'm panicking that I'm having twins now! I don't know of anyone in my family that has had any.

I was exactly the same as you with DS2 - they scanned me at 6 weeks as I was being so sick I was in hospital - but there was just the one. Can they do you a quick scan?

I was incredibly sick from 8-11 weeks with this pregnancy to the point I felt I couldn't continue. The sickness stopped on the morning of my 12 week scan where the sonographer told me there were two healthy babies. I'm due to be induced in 3 weeks time :-) if they don't appear before :-/

Happened to a friend of mine! Advise early scan

Oh god. And I tested positive 4 days before period was due. With DS I didn't test positive untill I was over a week late. Scared! I don think I'll be able to get an early scan on the NHS and don't really want to fork out for private.

Hi, I had a very similar experience - had awful nausea from week 5 and vomitting started at week 6. I never thought it could be twins but an early scan at 7.5 weeks detected that there were two babies!
So I guess it could be a possibility yes. I know it's frightening but once you get over the shock it feels very special and lovely.
Then again some people do experience early and awful symptoms and they're having just the one.
The only way to find out is to have a scan - could you request one? Just say you are really worrying now.
Good luck x

I felt awful at the beginning of this pregnancy. With the other two I felt a bit sick but could get on with my day.

This time I couldn't get enough sleep and spent all day in bed retching but not being sick. I normally have 28 day cycles and tested positive a week before my period was due. 12 week scan confirmed twins. I am the first to have twins in my family.

OTOH my best friend was really ill in hospital at the beginning of her last pregnancy. She didn't have twins, she had a girl, it was completely different to her previous pregnancies with boys.

Could you ask on the hyperemesis thread whether others suffering started at 6 /7 weeks and if so what they're having? It seems like a bit of a leap on the dr's part to me. I'm having twins and my MS was pretty mild.

I could feel a 'bump' at 8/9wks. The doctor said it was 'growing well' at 9 weeks. I could feel movement then too - tried to believe it was wind until about 10 weeks.......... Slept really well, but no sickness.

I got a very early positive too, and early symptoms. Far earlier than in other pregnancies. I freaked out a bit. My scan showed one baby, and the symptoms eased a bit earlier than before too. It might just be early implantation, which can move all the hormones on a bit I think.

juneavrile, "It seems like a bit of a leap on the dr's part to me."

While having twins doesn't mean that you will have HG/morning sickness, as you know from your own experience, and HG doesn't mean that you are definitely having twins (I've had HG 4 times with singletons each time), HG is far, far more common in women having twins so it is something that doctors consider in women with HG.

The stats are 25.9 cases of HG per thousand for twins compared to 5.1 per thousand for singletons.

www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/literature-review/twins-in-relation-to-nvp-or-hg/

PretzelPrincess, hope they will scan you soon so you can know either way and that the HG settles down soon for you.

I had hg from the minute i concieved my 2nd child ! Was in hospital too it was deadful never knew about the twins thing lol . I ended up on anti sickness tablets which helped lots. I had a healthy 9lb er. Good luck .

I was being sick with a positive test 4 days before my period was due with my first pregnancy

It was a singleton -dd1

Dd2 I barely knew I was pregnant it was so devoid of symptoms

I had the same. It's one baby.

I personally know four other women with HG and from 9 of their sickness crazed pregnancies only one of those was a twin pregnancy.

I've not felt nauseous or been sick with this pregnancy. I'm 29 wks with triplets.

Dinosnores
Great to see some data, but as the singletons in the study would mean 750 HG pregnancies and the twins only 50, the doctor would still only have a 6% chance of being right on sickness presentation alone.
If the op is over 35 / has had ivf with multiple embryos, that would possibly mean the doc had additional evidence to go on. Let's hope that is the case as it's not worth sending anyone into a panic on a guess!